Dear Daughter,
Last evening after dinner, we played the game of LIFE on my iPad, a game that Papa used to play many years ago as a board game and with the funky white, plastic volcanic spinner. Perhaps we'll play the real thing too this summer in New Mexico.
You won the game, and I was thinking that it was nice that the advice I was able to give you in the game of LIFE helped you to do better than Papa, which is what we always hope for our children at some level.
Also, at one point, when it came to "Spin to Win," something you had done twice already that game, once with four numbers and then again with two to no avail, this time you only had one number. I suggested to you to put down quite a bit of a gamble because you were winning and could afford it. You said, "I know it won't work." To that, I countered that we can never know for 100% certain that something will or will not work. You allowed me to gamble the maximum for your spin, and guess what, you hit the number this time and that won the game for you.
We can NEVER know for sure if something will or will not happen. Sometimes it is foolish to take big risks, but at other times, those risks are what "win" the game of LIFE for us.
Thank you for trying, and thank you for realizing that even if something went wrong in the past, it does not mean that it will in the present.
I Love You,
Papa
Last evening after dinner, we played the game of LIFE on my iPad, a game that Papa used to play many years ago as a board game and with the funky white, plastic volcanic spinner. Perhaps we'll play the real thing too this summer in New Mexico.
You won the game, and I was thinking that it was nice that the advice I was able to give you in the game of LIFE helped you to do better than Papa, which is what we always hope for our children at some level.
Also, at one point, when it came to "Spin to Win," something you had done twice already that game, once with four numbers and then again with two to no avail, this time you only had one number. I suggested to you to put down quite a bit of a gamble because you were winning and could afford it. You said, "I know it won't work." To that, I countered that we can never know for 100% certain that something will or will not work. You allowed me to gamble the maximum for your spin, and guess what, you hit the number this time and that won the game for you.
We can NEVER know for sure if something will or will not happen. Sometimes it is foolish to take big risks, but at other times, those risks are what "win" the game of LIFE for us.
Thank you for trying, and thank you for realizing that even if something went wrong in the past, it does not mean that it will in the present.
I Love You,
Papa
Thank you 'City".
ReplyDelete